During my tenure as museum director, the Hong Kong Maritime Museum averaged 35,000 paying visitors a year. This compares favourably with the paid visits to government museums and, indeed, with that of similar maritime museums abroad.

With dismembered bodies scattered all over the blood-spattered scene of this horrendous crime, it is no wonder that Madam Justice Jeffreys, in passing sentence, called for increased penalties in such cases.

When Luo Juncheng first walked into the offices of Hong Kong's Chiyu Bank in August 2009, he was a teenager setting up an account for a company he had bought off the shelf three days earlier. When he returned 10 days later, he set up a personal account with a meagre HK$500 deposit.